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Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval EuropeRelying on a broad range of printed and secondary sources, Wage Labor and Guilds charts the history of guilds from their antecedents in the Roman Empire to their 'crisis' in the fourteenth century. . . . As a much-needed synthesis, [the book] will serve...
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Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black...
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Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935One of the largest volunteer movements in the twentieth century, local farm and home bureau organizations have been woefully underrepresented in socio-political studies of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Nancy K. Berlage addresses this omission with an insightful look at how bureau members put...
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Confederate Political Economy: Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist NationIn Confederate Political Economy, Michael Bonner suggests that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state -- a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government....
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The Political Philosophy of the New DealBrought up on Wilsonian democracy and populist ideals, a young Hubert Humphrey witnessed the near-failure of the American political system during the Great Depression and its revival under Franklin D. Roosevelt. In The Political Philosophy of the New Deal, Humphrey responds to the changing...
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Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar IndustryEarly in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane conditions they endured in the cane fields. Rather than reforming their practices, sugar companies gained permission from the Cuban government to import...
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Andrew Jackson, SouthernerMany Americans view Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who fought duels, killed Indians, and stole another man's wife. Historians have traditionally presented Jackson as a man who struggled to overcome the obstacles of his backwoods upbringing and helped create a more democratic United States....
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Promoting the War Effort: Robert Horton and Federal Propaganda, 1938-1946Though historians have largely overlooked Robert Horton, his public relations campaigns remain fixed in popular memory of the home front during World War II. Utilizing all media -- including the nascent technology of television -- to rally civilian support, Horton's work ranged from educational...
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A Cold War Turning Point: Nixon and China, 1969-1972In February 1972, President Nixon arrived in Beijing for what Chairman Mao Zedong called the "week that changed the world." Using recently declassified sources from American, Chinese, European, and Soviet archives, Chris Tudda's A Cold War Turning Point reveals new details about the relationship...
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Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John MerrymanIn the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort...
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Political Polling in the Digital Age: The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public OpinionThe 2008 presidential election provided a "perfect storm" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect -- in which white voters misrepresent their intentions of voting for...
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Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane KatrinaIn Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. In New Orleans, crime,...
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A Politics of Understanding: The International Thought of Raymond AronFrequently hailed as one of the greatest defenders of democratic liberalism in postwar Europe, French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator Raymond Aron (1905--1983) left behind a staggering amount of published work on a remarkably wide range of topics both scholarly and popular. In A...
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When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954-1968When Freedom Would Triumph recalls the most significant and inspiring legislative battle of the twentieth century -- the two decades of struggle in the halls of Congress that resulted in civil rights for the descendants of American slaves. Robert Mann's comprehensive analysis shows how...
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Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948--1968At the height of the cold war, southern segregationists exploited the reigning mood of anxiety by linking the civil rights movement to an international Communist conspiracy. Jeff Woods tells a gripping story of fervent crusaders for racial equality swept into the maelstrom of the...
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From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963--1994 (Revised)"Carter's essays present graphic evidence of the extent to which race continues to matter in American politics."-Journal of Southern History In this penetrating survey of the last three decades, Dan T. Carter examines race as an issue in presidential politics. Drawing on his broad...
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Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American ImaginationWhat is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness? Historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes that have erupted online and digs to the root of the far right's motivations:...
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When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's QuestPoet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border. Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother...
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Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its RightsA behind-the-scenes account of the passing of the ADA--the moment when millions of Americans won their civil rights The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has...
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Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of PlentyThis powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone's table, "[blending] a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor" (Dr. Jane Goodall) In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses...
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